Top 100 Lifelong Quotes
#1. There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.
Jennifer James
#2. Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
Zadie Smith
#3. Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I ... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.
Marc Guggenheim
#4. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.
Aaron B. Powell
#5. Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.
Bill Rodgers
#6. The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.
Paul Monette
#7. I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.
Marcel Proust
#9. Learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners ... every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
Barbara Bush
#10. One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.
George Takei
#11. The key to success is to be a lifelong learner who continuously works hard to improve.
Jon Gordon
#12. Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.
Harold Rosenberg
#13. Finding your purpose is a lifelong adventure. Enjoy the journey.
Todd Stocker
#15. Be a truth seeker. Go after it with all your might. Let it seep deep into the marrow of your soul. For it will be the only thing to save you in the end. No savior, no religion, no teacher, no guru can do that. You must do it. It is a lifelong pursuit while on this earth.
Dara Reidyr
#16. Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.
Brendon Burchard
#17. Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a general social principle
Hannah Black
#18. Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.
Gilbert Parker
#19. Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.
Sri Amma Bhagwan.
#20. All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
Jane Smiley
#21. But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
Deepak Chopra
#22. Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.
Anthony Kiedis
#23. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness and strength.
Louisa May Alcott
#24. Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
Brian Tracy
#25. I would fly to the moon with my wings of love so that I could express my lifelong admiration of you.
Debasish Mridha
#26. I realized my predicament early in my First Year. We don't say "Freshman" or "Senior" etc. at UVA because Mr. Jefferson felt that education is a lifelong process
Tina Fey
#27. I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.
Elizabeth Emken
#28. Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.
Jessica Mitford
#29. The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
#30. When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.
Gene Weingarten
#31. I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.
John Kricfalusi
#32. I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.
Lee Child
#33. On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.
Gilbert Sorrentino
#34. Learning makes you to stay forever young.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#35. Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.
Malvina Hoffman
#36. It's just another weapon. Its nature depends on who wields it. He would have to keep reminding himself. The thoughts of hatred were so old they had become instincts. This was not something he could cure overnight. Like Nina with parem, it might well be a lifelong fight.
Leigh Bardugo
#37. Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
Hudson Stuck
#38. Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.
John Paul Caponigro
#40. Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, "My mother was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen." And I think her life was a constant and continual and lifelong contrast with her mother.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#41. Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
Robert Breault
#42. Grace cannot prevail ... until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.
Robert Farrar Capon
#43. I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.
Tony Vlachos
#44. The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.
Lloyd Dobyns
#45. Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.
Neil L. Andersen
#46. To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
Cat Cora
#48. Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.
Hilarie Owen
#49. I'm a lifelong Democrat, but I have supported some Republicans. I'm all about results, man. If somebody can deliver, that's where I'm gonna go. It's about who can get the job done.
Ray Nagin
#50. My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
Steven Van Zandt
#51. and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes,
Louisa May Alcott
#52. Jack regarded himself as locked in a lifelong struggle with this establishment, on behalf of the Anglo-Saxon peasantry whose birthright had been stolen a thousand years earlier by the Norman knights.
Roger Scruton
#53. Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.
Ben Bernanke
#54. Raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
Robin Morgan
#55. People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.
George Gilder
#56. To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of our place in the world.
Paul Gagnon
#57. A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.
William Henry Hudson
#58. It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God's authority.
K.P. Yohannan
#59. If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#60. Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Isaac Asimov
#61. The problem is the average person isnt tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and its not in the movies they watch, and its not in the few books that they buy, they dont get it.
Jack Canfield
#62. I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
Karen Bass
#63. As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.
Ned Rorem
#64. I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to.
Graham Moore
#65. Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
Dada Vaswani
#66. Genre pleasures are many, but the quality of shared values within an ongoing discussion may be the most powerful, enlisting lifelong devotion in its fans.
Gregory Benford
#67. People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
Peter Senge
#68. Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
Ravi Zacharias
#69. The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.
Glenn Gould
#70. I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!
Bobbi Brown
#71. August is the month when wars start. It's when the water dries up and the spirit begins to wither. Insomniacs pull down their shades and lock themselves in their rooms in August. Lifelong friends have fist fights. People feel like they're going to burst. Sometimes they do.
Al Aronowitz
#72. We are all perfect clocks that the Divinity has set to ticking when, even before birth, the heart explodes into its lifelong dance.
Mark Helprin
#73. Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.
Liane Moriarty
#74. I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.
Alice Munro
#75. I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.
Michelle Obama
#76. One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.
Timothy Noah
#77. scientists are learning that people have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development than they ever thought.
Carol S. Dweck
#78. I actually think that 'States of Union' will be a lifelong endeavor for me. It won't take up all my energy as it has in recent years, but I imagine that I will always continue to add to the body of work - the project of documentation will never be entirely complete.
Alix Smith
#79. I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.
Eileen Myles
#80. Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.
John Ferling
#81. A blind person could make a lifelong study of the eye, properties of light, the sight process and become a great expert in the field, but in another sense he would know nothing about sight. A person could know a great deal about God and yet not know God.
Stephen Covey
#82. For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
Marie Rutkoski
#83. It's a folk art of sorts, I said to Hoeller, always longing to kill oneself but being kept by one's watchful intelligence from killing oneself, so that the condition is stabilized in the form of lifelong controlled suffering, it's an art possessed only by this people and those belonging to it.
Thomas Bernhard
#84. Everything is in how you are going to handle it. As a lifelong nightclub comic, I'm ready to handle whatever I have to handle.
Jerry Seinfeld
#85. PIO card holders- they have lot of visa issues. We decided they will get lifelong visa.
Narendra Modi
#86. I love running. It's as simple as that ... it has given me endless rewards: physical, emotional, and professional. The benefits of running are lifelong. I ran as a child, and I intend to run into my old age.
Grete Waitz
#87. When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.
James L. Brooks
#88. This perhaps is what is meant by hiraeth: a lifelong yearning for what is gona and out of reach.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#89. The thing about being a lifelong gamer is that my eye-to-hand reaction time is faster than average. I actually went on a website that tests your reaction time and verified this to my satisfaction.
Arthur Chu
#90. In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
Stanford Moore
#91. As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#92. In today's newspaper there was a story about a married clergyman with three children who is calling for all sex to be declared un-Christian. He says lifelong virginity is the ideal for Christians. I wonder, has he told his wife and children this?
Wendy Buonaventura
#93. Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
William Haley
#94. As I worked to rebuild the ghost town I had made, I felt keenly that my failure to help Timothy was really only the latest chapter in a lifelong history of inadequacy and powerlessness.
Michael Chabon
#95. If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides of a troubled situation, Lincoln urged a more sympathetic understanding of the nation's alienated citizens in the South.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#96. Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by Joseph Stalin, Joseph McCarthy and Mao Tse Tung.
David James Duncan
#97. Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.
Wallace Stegner
#99. My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.
Michael Strahan
#100. When you have a steady and lifelong group of girlfriends, chances are the person you're telling the story to is actually part of the story.
Sloane Crosley
